Tesla Motors Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has turned his worries about the rise of artificial intelligence into an international research program.The Musk-backed Future of Life Institute said Wednesday it awarded about $7 million to teams around the world to look at the risks and opportunities posed by the development of AI. The grants were funded by part of Musk’s $10 million donation to the group in January and $1.2 million from the Open Philanthropy Project.

That's right, the man who builds future cars, drone boats and unmanned space rockets is $10 million worth of freaked out that robots will kill us all. Musk is going to parcel out the cash to robotics projects that focus more on decision-making and ethics in the file of robotics.

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Apparently, Musk and Stephen Hawking share a terror (oh, to be Elon) that the world of AI is developing way too fast. Like so fast that we are getting dangerously close to a future in which police officers pay like this:

But Elon could probably explain it best on his own, and we're not saying that sounds like he got stoned and went to a screening of the new Terminator movie...

“With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon,” Musk, also CEO of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., said in October.